Changes at IDEM Since EQSCHouse Environmental Affairs

Committee January 28, 2009

Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., BCEE, QEP CommissionerIN Department of Environmental Management

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Performance Metrics Jan 2009

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Quality of Hoosiers' Environment Result Target Comments

% of Hoosiers in counties meeting air quality standards 84% 100% 80% 2 counties & 981,839 of

6,345,289 above standard

% of CSO Communities with approved programs to prevent the release of untreated sewage 93% 100% 20% 90+9 (99) out of 98+9 (107)

Permitting Efficiency Total calendar days accumulated in issuing environmental permits, as determined by state statute

Land 16,647 66,565 86,864 131 permits

317 permits

24 permits

Air 72,845 207,000 385,000

Water 29,712 48,000 200,000

* Places emphasis on back logged permits

Compliance Total percentage of compliance observations from regulated customers within acceptable compliance standards

Inspections 96.22% 97% 75%

Self reporting 94.93% 99% 95%

Continuous monitoring (COM) 99.85% 99.90% 98.95%

* Tracks observations and not just inspections

Organizational Transformation Budgetary agency dollars spent on key outside contracts for core agency functions.

Dollars spent on outside services per year $1,500,000 $0 $3,447,017 $1.5 OLQ

Performance Metrics June 2005

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New Drinking Water Metric

• Percent of Hoosiers Drinking Safe Water– Percentage of Indiana population that receives

drinking water from facilities that are in full compliance with safe drinking water regulations

– Federal (EPA) Goal is 90%– Indiana Goal is 99%– Indiana Current Actual is 98.2%

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How Does IDEM Protect the Environment?

• Develop regulations and issue permits to restrict discharges to the environment to safe levels

• Inspect and monitor permitted facilities to ensure compliance with the permits

• Enforce against people who exceed their permit levels or violate regulations

• Educate people on their environmental responsibilities

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Total Permit Calendar Days

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Air Permits Branch Rapid Improvement Activities• Lean/Kaizen Methodology to improve efficiency

– Significant Source Modifications (Construction Approvals) 9/07 Event

• Process time reduced from 220 days to 121 days avg. –Permit Renewals 12/07 Event

• Process time reduced from 678 day avg. to all those issued in ’08 within 270 days allowed (calendar days)

• Eliminate backlog of administratively extended permits

– 1/1/08 - 156 permits

– 1/7/09 only 9 remaining7

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Agency Accomplishments

• All 97 State lead CSO Communities and 2 of the Federal lead Communities have entered legal agreements to address their CSO issues.

• We are working with USEPA to speed the progress on the remaining 8 Federal lead CSO communities.

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Agency Accomplishments• Entire State met the 0.08 ppm Ozone air

quality standard for the period 2006-2008, and we are working with USEPA to have Lake and Porter Counties designated attainment.

• Entire State also met the 0.075 Ozone air quality standard for the year 2008.

• All but Clark County met the PM2.5 Air Quality Standards for the period 2006-2008.

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Agency Initiatives• Virtual File Cabinet—electronic filing system

with 40,000,000 pages now online

• TEMPO—Enterprise wide electronic integration of all IDEM information—part of the to receive and process electronic permit applications and reports– Two programs accepting electronic submittals, 401

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Agency Initiatives

• Returned enforcement function to the air, water and land programs and eliminated the separate office of enforcement.

• Provide consistent Statewide air quality permitting, monitoring and enforcement services by directly managing the air program functions previously contracted to: Anderson, Evansville, Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis, and Vigo County.

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Reasons for Enforcement Change• No improvement in compliance rates in 4 years• EPA HQ told me both enforcement models

(separate office or in program) are used effectively

• Enforcement was regularly “waiting on program staff” under the control of other managers

• Unpublished enforcement policies resulted in unexpected actions—too timid and too aggressive

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Compliance and Enforcement Response Policy (CERP)

• CERP was last revised in 2003 and was an internal IDEM document.

• In order to meet our goal of transparency we decided to update the CERP and publish it as a Non Rule Policy Document under IC 13-14-1-11.5. Draft signed for 45 day public comment period on 10/31/08.

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Compliance and Enforcement Response Policy (CERP)

• The 45 day review period ended in Mid December, but because of the changes to the enforcement structure the CERP will be revised and posted for another 45 day comment period before being presented to the Air, Water and Solid Waste Boards.

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Local Agency Contracts

• Continuation of IDEM’s goal to use efficiency gains to reduce contracting out of core environmental protection functions.– $3 Million/year in Air Permit Contracts with $1.1

Million in IDEM Resources while improving service.– 1.5 Million/year in Leaking Underground Storage

Tank Clean ups with $0.7 Million in IDEM resources while improving service.

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Local Agency Contracts• IDEM spends just over $2 Million per year on

Local Agency Contracts:– Anderson $66,642– Evansville $177,498– Gary $24,000– Hammond $375,100– Indianapolis $1,124,139– Vigo County $266,662

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Local Agency Contracts• IDEM believes that it can provide the same or

better level of environmental protection for about $0.5 Million/year freeing up resources to address remaining air quality issues in Indiana.

• Local Agency Air Quality Services include:– Permitting– Inspections– Complaint Response– Air Quality Monitoring

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Permits

Permit Issuer Number of Permits Average Days per Permit

Evansville (2006) 2 874

Hammond 5 382

Indianapolis 40 232

Vigo County (2007) 9 293

IDEM 423 173

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Permitting Speed

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Complaints

Hammond 2007 Indianapolis (8 Mo) IDEM 2008

Particulate Matter 23 25 88

Open Burning 9 78 194

Odors 21 28 60

Smoke 3 2 12

Asbestos 13 37

Noise 12 1

Total Air Complaints 70 148 431

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Inspections

TOTAL USED CAR LOTS AIR EMISSIONS

Indianapolis 202 60 142

Other Local Agencies

141 0 141

IDEM 1711 0 1711

TOTAL 2054 60 1994

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Air Quality Monitoring

Continuous PM2.5 TOTAL

Evansville 14* 6* 20*

Indianapolis 14 5 19

IDEM 51 25 76

TOTAL 79 36 115

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Summary of Local Agency Contracts Change

• IDEM will provide the following services for Anderson, Evansville, Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis and Vigo County:– Permitting– Inspections– Complaint Response– Air Quality Monitoring

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Grant and Loan Suspension• All Grants and Loans from the following non-

reverting funds to entities that had not returned award paperwork by December 19 have been suspended:– 2580 Recycling Promotion Assistance Fund– 2530 Solid Waste Recycling Fund– 2640 Waste Tire Fund

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Questions?

Tom EasterlyCommissioner

Indiana Department of Environmental Management317-232-8611

teasterly@idem.in.gov

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